We have all experienced on occasion a coincidence that seemed so unlikely that we find it magical and epiphanic as if there were connections between events, people or information through invisible threads that we can only glimpse at times. According to the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, this is not causality, but synchronicity, one of the most enigmatic and surprising aspects of our universe.
Let's see, Who was Carl Jung, according to Wikipedia:
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Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. As a notable research scientist based at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler, he came to the attention of the Viennese founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated on an initially joint vision of human psychology. Source
There is no chance, and what is presented to us as chance arises from the deepest sources
-Friedrich Schiller-
According to Carl G. Jung who coined the term of synchronicity, referring to "the simultaneity of two events linked by sense but not causally" as the union of inner and outer events in a way that can not be explained but has a certain sense for the person who observes it.
Jung came to the conclusion that there is an intimate connection between the individual and his environment, which in certain moments exerts an attraction that ends up creating coinciding circumstances, having a specific value for the people who live it, a symbolic meaning or being an external manifestation of the collective unconscious. It is this type of event that we usually attribute to chance, chance, luck or even magic, according to our beliefs.
The synchronicity would represent us in the physical plane, for example, the idea or solution that hides in our mind, made up of surprise and coincidence, being in this way much easier to reach.
Like Jung, Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel Prize in physics, thought that synchronicity was one of the expressions that characterized the unus mundus, a unified reality from which all that exists emerges and returns. Coinciding this conception with the Theory of the Totality and the Implicate Order of the Quantum Mechanics of the American physicist David Bohm.
We are like islands in the sea, separated from the surface but connected in depth
-William James-
A synchronic experience often comes to our lives when we least expect it, but at the exact moment, sometimes changing the direction of our path and influencing our thoughts. But for this, we have to be receptive and attentive to the world around us, creating an openness to that possibility of synchronicity.
The more alert we are with respect to our environment, the more likely it is that it will happen to us or at least that we pay attention ... From small conversations, songs on the radio or advertising messages, for example, to seemingly "fortuitous" encounters. You just have to be vigilant.
If we let circumstances flow and we do not press or force the occurrence of events or the will of people, while maintaining a receptive and open attitude, letting ourselves be guided by our intuition and inner wisdom, we will open ourselves to "the magic" that we offer the experience of synchronicity. If we know how to listen to it, it can become a good guide for our lives.
Perhaps this is one of the many universal laws that can not be proven with too much security, but that nevertheless its presence has guided the lives of many people and is present throughout the history of humanity, being some of the reasons to maintain this current concept. Remember that Don Juan told Carlos Castaneda that luck was really a form of power.
Even this article may have been the result of synchronicity ... :)
- There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives, Robert H. Hopcke
- Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind, David Peat
- Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, C.G. Jung
- The Roots of Coincidence, Arthur Koestler
- The Good Luck of Right Now, Matthew Quick
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